Why should you buy Clarke Hall & Morrison on Children

Clarke Hall & Morrison on Children is acknowledged as being the leading work on both the civil jurisdiction of the family courts and the criminal jurisdiction of the youth courts.

The work gathers together all the legislation, circulars and guidance notes that relate to every aspect of child law. It also includes useful procedural tables, checklists, precedents and flowcharts. Expert commentary explains and clarifies the law throughout and makes sure that the reader is fully aware of its practical implications.

The work includes expert analysis of all the relevant case law and contains all relevant source materials accompanied by explanatory commentary. The service is kept up-to-date through three updating issues per year and regular monthly bulletins which keep the subscriber informed of the latest legislation and cases, including all the recent statutory material from April 2014 relating to the Family Court and updating the Family Procedure Rules 2010. This year the service will also contain new chapters on Mental Health and Employment.

The service is also available on CD-ROM as part of the Butterworths Family and Child Law Library, bringing all the added benefits of electronic delivery such as enhanced search facilities and hypertext links.

Five looseleaf volumes plus a Tables binder, subscribers receive their first year's updating issues as part of the purchase price (three service issues approx. per year). Subscribers are charged annually for subsequent updating.

The application of the paramountcy principle to (a) habeas corpus proceedings and (b) a local authority application to withdraw a care application;

Jurisdiction: the application of the FLA 1986 to a child present in England and Wales but habitually resident in a non EU State; the position in care proceedings with regard to diplomatic immunity;

Interpreting the revised Brussels II Regulation: application to grandparents’ access; the meaning of no habitual residence under Art 13, and the need to sty proceedings during a pendency of an appeal against a foreign court ruling that it is second seised under Art 19.

Division 2

Coverage of the latest cases on relocation including S & V (Children – Leave to Remove) on the weight to be attached to the status quo and transparency;

The Court of Appeal’s consideration of the jurisdiction to grant non-molestation orders for the benefit of non-applicants in Re T (A Child) (Non-Molestation Order) Re T (A Child) (Non-Molestation Order).

Applying the President’s Guidance on Case Management and Mediation in International Child Abduction proceedings;

Establishing an Art 13 (b) exception where a mother requires a vis to return to the USA;

Setting aside return orders.

Division 6

Local authority use of the inherent jurisdiction to permit them not to serve a violent father with notice of proceedings.

Division 9

Updated discussion of:

Allocation of care proceedings, taking into account the President’s Guidance: Jurisdiction of the Family Court: Allocation of Cases within the Family Court to High Court Judge Level and Transfer of Cases from the Family Court to the High Court (28 February 2018);

Concurrent care and criminal proceedings and/or immigration proceedings: Protocol on Communicating with UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) in Family Proceedings (issued on 16 May 2018);

Jurisdiction: the position in care proceedings with regard to diplomatic immunity: A Local Authority v X.

Division 10

Takes full account of the revised guidance, issued on 10 April 2018 by the President in relation to listing adoption cases – President’s Guidance: Listing Final Hearings in Adoption Cases (replacing the President’s Guidance: Listing Final Hearings in Adoption Cases of 3 October 2008).

Division 12

Having updated the chapters on special educational needs and disability and discrimination in the last Issue, this Issue contains updates on The stages of Education and reference is made to the Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018.

Division 14

Updates on sentencing guidelines.

Division 16

Coverage of the latest case (Re S) on Gillick competence of under 16 year olds; Updated re-write of the section on Deprivation of liberty.